Maquiavel, Realists and the International Politics

Abstract

This article searchs demonstrate how main arguments on Maquiavel´s work, many of them deepened by Hobbes and other realistics authors, were incoorporated on the begning of the XX century as a found basis subject of International Relation. Since then, many authors have contributed on elaborating a realistc theorical model of Iternational Politics. Realism predominated on the theorical discussions of the subject for decades. It fullfiled an essencial fuction of instituzionalizing the International Relations as an independent area of study on Social Science. However, as a side efffect, “encapsulated” Maquiavel´s classic lessons in analitical reducionist arranges. Narrowing this way, the thought´s fertility of the maquiavelic´s thinking to the analyses of the research´s agenda on the International Relations area.